skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(I'm a co-founder at Sidelines.) LanceJones, you're exactly right: A key lesson from our landing page experiment is that vague messaging incites curiosity in users, and curiosity can be a powerful motivator to get users to spend an extra few minutes to sign up for a service. This same user may have decided to bounce off the landing page if it went into the details of the value proposition (this is what we did with the initial versions of Sidelines' landing page), so the vague messaging has a better chance of getting the user through the door. However, whether or not the site is able to keep the user engaged post-signup depends on a number of different factors: The engagement numbers for sidelines have consistently gone up as we keep optimizing our sign up flow once the user logs in, the first run experience of the product, the welcome email, email/FB notifications, newsletters, etc.
Taste is subjective. I write my JS pretty much the way DoubleDollar does. Of course, CoffeeScript makes it moot. :)
From my read of the proposal ES6 classes feel more like syntactic sugar for the flawed concept of new/constructor/obj.prototype, you still have to mess with obj.prototype to achieve some tasks (e.g. define non-enumerable property). I would stay away from it and just use plain objects with Object.create().
There are lots of volunteering sites out there. SocialCoder is for programmers.
Kudos on the video. I was 50/50 on whether I wanted to buy one, but after the video I had to have one!
From Inspiration to Execution: The Mail Pilot Journey
Ah. Sorry I was hasty, some don't support a. All the more reason to include the good one. :) I believe all the intel chips are essentially identical driver wise, but dunno about the unlabeled one. Then again, I would not be picking the unlabeled mystery chip if I were concerned about drivers.
Google officially launches Google Wallet for web content
Doesn't every other person say doing a startup is a 24/7 commitment? It's hard to quit the refined-carbohydrate yo-yo in the middle of that.
You're Nobody Without Your Mobile Device
No, X.25 had nothing to do with the ARPANET. X.25 did have something to do with the Internet and so did CYCLADES (both of which, by the way, came after ARPANET and was inspired by it, then inspired changes in ARPANET again). They are both packet switched networks that contributed to the Internet we have today (though arguably not as much as ARPANET).

Packet switching was, by the way, not invented in the United States, but in Britain [1], but ARPANET was the first to actually implement it, so yes, part of ARPANET was based directly off British design.

Like I said, most of the Internet we have now would never have existed (or looked quite differently) without the work of American universities or DARPA. This is not even what this is about.

This thread is about the global .edu TLD being restricted to US accredited universities, whereas it was originally intended to be open to the world. The comment I replied to was "Nobody made your country sign up for the American internet. You could have built your own...". The internet is not property of the USA, and it shouldn't be.

The USA clearly had a key role in the development role, which is cool, but don't pat your own back like that. Stay classy.

[1] http://www.internethalloffame.org/inductees/donald-davies
Seconded.

For a second I was excited to see a really compact and portable keyboard - but I want/need a wireless one. A shame..
Yes, you can do it with AutoHotKey. I tried it a few years ago but didn't really get on with it. I think it might have caused problems with some keyboard shortcuts I use - a lot of my emacs shortcuts are designed for activation with one hand pressing modifier keys and the letter key.

Anyway, just use the < and > modifiers to indicate left or right Shift specifically. For example, assuming QWERTY:

<+q::Send q
>+p::Send p
I actually agree with you, I'm an internet champion myself, so I didn't mean to pigeonhole anyone. My main point was to say that increased revenue in the concert and merch sector will not come close to replacing the gaping hole of content revenue. We have to go one step further.

As for Hoodie Allen, I've actually talked to him before on the phone about his Facebooking strategy! I like him, he's smart! He's definitely the type to succeed in the new music industry. Check out the song "No Sleep till Brooklyn"... my buddy Jhameel sings the hook on it!
And if there was any doubt, I offer up this: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/10/apple-revising-mfi-prog...
I don't understand what you are getting at. Typically MP3s use mid/side encoding, where the diffence between the channels is computed before the compression step.
>I'm curious as to why numerous JS frameworks create DOM structure via string concatenation,

Probably because of this: http://jsperf.com/string-concatenation-vs-the-dom
I'm using total government revenue over total personal income as a proxy for the tax rate. That includes some taxes on individuals which are not levied as income taxes, like sales tax, and some which do not fall on individuals directly, like corporate tax.

Regardless, this is a pretty good proxy. The federal numbers alone are $2.5 trillion of the $5.1 trillion dollar total. 2.5 / 13 is 19%, which is the more familiar number for the effective average federal tax rate.

If you live in Taxtopia, the story ends there, but on average if you're a US citizen you're paying another 19% in local, property, and sales taxes, for a total of 38%.
the most unreachable place on the new iPhone

A nice benefit for us left-handed people though.
I've started seeing these on my Visa card as well, about 1 month ago. I wonder which one tipped the other off about it, or which case made this so sensitive to these large companies.
I trust the tool, and I'm pretty confident in the margin of error. I would bet that there are a significant number of people with multiple / fake accounts.
Considering CSS
"Always on (for passageways) so it consistently locks as you walk up and unlocks as you walk away."

I don't want my door toying with me like this.
Normally I might not identify with this level of nostalgia, but in this case I find it hard to restrain myself.

Slashdot was a critical piece of Internet history. In my mind it was last big thing that came out of the Internet from the era when it was exclusively for geeks. It continued in the footsteps of what we had done previously with email, usenet, ftp/archie, and irc, and became one of the biggest websites for us old timers.

After Slashdot the next big thing was probably Napster, and at that point the chasm was crossed to traditional mainstream youth demographics. Never again would the biggest thing on the Internet also be the geekiest.

Godspeed cmdrtaco.
Everything about "Xbox Music" I've seen (including the app in the Windows 8 RTM) would seem to indicate that the service is simply Zune without the tainted brand. I'm not entirely convinced Microsoft needs Rdio for such a service, beyond their userbase. Not to say an Rdio buyout would be unlikely, but the conjecture in this piece about Rdio being Xbox Music doesn't survive the facts already out there.
It's important to note the careful hedging in that response. Specifically:

* Activity Streams will be read-only, except through their (non-ostatus) API.

* No subscribing through pubsubhubbub "initially." It implies but does not promise eventually subscribing.

* Similar to streams, webfinger will be published but not consumed.

* From context, the final clause about inbound and outbound syndication is through some non-ostatus mechanism.
Ancestry.com is for sale[1] and it is the largest social network in the world (granted, most profiles are inactive).

The potential is huge for an acquirer, however, it would be relatively easy for another social network to allow members to create profiles for the deceased. In the future, many of today's social network connections might just function as 1st person genealogical records (provided the companies can sustain).

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-22/ancestry-said-to-se...
Sphinxtr: Creating a Portable PhD Thesis
I'd like to see an option for when i don't have my phone on me (keypad).
The reward program was announced a week before Netbot was released (that is, today). Doesn't seem like the reward program was around when they decided to port over Tweetbot.
To play devil's advocate, it is less conspicuous to open a door that you can hack open with your phone than it is to pick or bump it (Although depending on your skill, picking it may be a very easy thing too).
I know I'm fighting an uphill battle here, and being prescriptivist, and derailing the conversation, and all that bad stuff, but could we please stop using "wiki" as an abbreviation for Wikipedia?

Wikipedia is a wiki, not the only wiki. That's why it's called Wikipedia; it's a wiki based encyclopedia. Calling it "wiki" is like calling Encyclopedia Brittanica "encyclopedia" for short. It makes no sense. Would you say "ya well, encyclopedia doesn't have a head shaving article"? No, you would say "Encyclopedia Brittanica" or "the encyclopedia" (if one was clear from context) or "my encyclopedia".
If you find yourself in the situation of the calculator-assuming woman, where you feel like you've made a comment that touches on cultural sensitivities, use the moment as a learning experience. Instead of leaving the awkward air, ask them what they are thinking. "oh sorry haha that was a weird assumption, what is it?" Asking to be educated is pretty much the opposite of the mansplaining / whitesplaining that is so painful to the author of qu33riosity, and is almost universally welcomed. A little humility goes a long way.
Awesome! I love the concept and will purchase one after I move from a condo with an auto-locking door system, which i loathe! :(

From a product design perspective, maybe consider a rock-solid brushed metal version.. if not purely for asethetic appeal for snobs like me, but also to project the sense of security and that's something to think about holistically in your marketing which the website barely touches on. Your device carries a big burden; peace of mind about my family's security — not the replaceable materials within it.

I think overall the design looks really good, but something about it feels Fisher-Price. I know that might seem superficial to some but that was my immediate reaction.

Congrats on the success!
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Pao Says Kleiner Perkins Fired Her; Firm Denies It
I was refering to xanados' article, not the OP: http://squid314.livejournal.com/329561.html
I would argue that immigration as a solution to economic growth is a zero sum game, and we need to look at different answers.

Gifted, driven, talented entrepreneurs tend to succeed wherever they end up, but there is a finite natural supply.

What Western nations should concentrate on is growing and exploiting their not-quite-natural-born entrepreneurs. yC seems to be quite good at this but a wider government policy is the most likely way to see sustained growth - not inviting the cream of Indias crop to nip over and pay taxes for twenty years. Delhi is not stupid, and there will be a race to the bottom.
I've often thought about this. Specifically, if you want to play a game of paintball or some other physical activity, there is often a waiver you sign which says something along the line of:

"you agree not to sue if you injure yourself, even if it was due to our negligence... "

When I sign it (because I can either agree, or not play the game of paintball with my mates), I just do so on the basis that a clause like that wouldn't hold up very well.
Honeydew melons are my favorite. They have an amazing texture with just the right amount of sweetness. Putting your terrible taste in fruits aside, you raise an excellent point. The waitress reached a conclusion that was the complete of the truth. Similar mistakes in product or software design would catastrophic.
I'd like to second this. The product looks very flimsy. (This is to say nothing about the actual security it provides.) One would think a more menacing lock that also works really well would also work two-fold as a preventive measure for would-be thieves.
i've been a rdio subscriber for a while now.

+ new releases, right on time.
+ high quality (on wifi)

- terrible to use on my commute 1hr. seems like the app doesn't buffer data properly for low signal scenarios (pandora does!)
- when a song doesn't buffer properly, i "pause" the song and play local music. when the song buffers it stops my music and starts playing. this get's ridiculously annoying.
- i've noticed my battery life being drained with the rdio app running (not playing or streaming) in the background. this may have been fixed in recent updates.

imo, these guys have a lot to learn from pandora on ux
Other output formats:
http://jterrace.github.com/sphinxtr/

GitHub repository:
https://github.com/jterrace/sphinxtr
> It would also quite possibly lead to a more restrictive regime for the unskilled vs. skilled.

What I'm worried is that it'll also lead to more market distortion, as the government tries to micromanage specific industries and quotas, which will inevitably be based on which industries lobby the most. If it were a fairly general skilled/unskilled distinction, like Canada's points system, I'd support that, though.
Great that the pre-orders have been such a success ... but still, that's ~3-3.5k units. Is that a lot of sales for this kind of product? It sounds low, but I might just be benchmarking off of the digital goods numbers I'm used to hearing.
Jekyll and Hyde are both awesome. I played around with Pelican a while ago, and it seemed solid.

Droptype wasn't much more than that. It used Dropbox's then-new revised API to look at Dropbox/Apps/Droptype and then displayed any Markdown files as a list. If you added a README file, it would render the contents of that. It was a quick and dirty Django app.

There wasn't any control over the design or any web-based editing capabilities. Others are doing interesting stuff in that space, most notably http://scriptogr.am/ which is probably a lot like where Marquee would have ended up if we continued to go keep going down that route. They're doing a very nice job with it though.

That said, we're looking at Dropbox/GitHub integration as more of a feature than a product. We're approaching the problem space from a somewhat different direction; the focus on our authoring environment is the first step to getting there.
This is being done right now it's just segmented and no real platform has emerged as the place to do it. The real problem with the model from my perspective is that in artists (and their label/mgmts) desperation to remain relevant & earn a better living they are constantly on social media & watering down their celebrity. Combine that with the fact that any cute kid on YouTube can suddenly become a celebrity in his own right you have a) way more celebrities and b) way over exposed celebrities. The internet has basically commoditized being famous in some ways and in most artists desperation to try and get 'bigger' and make more money they make it worse. There will always be the massive artists where the masses go insane and people line up down the block to video chat with. Those artists don't have a problem now. The ones that are really in trouble are the every day middle of the road full time working artists (selling 50-300K records). This kind of platform will not work with enough scale & consistently enough to even begin a conversation about it replacing old record sales revenue. I think he touched on the real key to the long term music business which is embracing streaming and getting as many fans as possible to listen to your music and care enough to go to your shows. Any money a band makes from recorded music will forever be a bonus.
Ad industry blasts Microsoft over Do Not Track defaults in IE 10
Google Wallet for Digital Goods
Has anyone done a thorough security review of the lockitron hardware, etc.? While I know physical locks aren't that secure, people that couldn't get in easily with a physical lock might be able to trivially get in with an electronic one.

I wonder if there's been any consideration to tying this in with Google's two-factor-style authentication system?
My point is simply that if you're going through a period where 2-3 people are harassing you in the exact same manner, every day, you might consider changing your behavior to stop it from happening. I know I would.
Language benchmark results mapped to car types
One wrinkle - Doesn't this poll ignores anyone under 18? Facebook lets you sign up only once you have turned 13. Internet users between the ages of 13 to 18 are unaccounted for.
> try searching for "Hong Kong" on Waze, for a laugh

Of course, Waze seems to be unabashedly car-oriented, not really a general mapping service—and nobody in their right mind drives in Hong Kong...
Here's a tutorial on how to set one up https://github.com/hstove/launchy
The Canadian Startup Financing Landscape (Infographic)
Facebook: $7 To Promote My Status Update??
Leap has a higher resolution, but a smaller range apparently. Leap's video shows a person using two hands close together and not apart like 3Gear's system.
I don't think most rational people care too much what other people look like. It would seem to only be an issue if a founder were so obese that it appeared his/her life was quite out of control.
I find myself way more excited about Netbot than App.net.
Poll:  Would patents be more readable with claims written in shorter sentences?
I'm the worst bug Twitter ever faced.
FYI I downloaded your app a couple months ago with the hopes I could use it to replicate my NFC card for my building, but I hit your login-only screen.

Can you make an a "Lockitron Labs" app or something similar that allows you to read third party NFC keys and replicate their signal on demand?
It lives on the inside of the door, I believe. So would-be thieves can't see it.
cough http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/
b) They're going to get a bajillion inbound links because their content is interesting to link to (as opposed to standard lyrics sites). Which will rank them higher than their competitors for the same queries.

This is true today, and RapGenius has a great linking feature that lets you link to a single line explanation in the lyrics (helpful so the recipient doesn't have to scroll through and find the line of interest).
It's installed on the inside of the door, on top of the existing locking system.

My comment was mostly about consumer confidence when it's hanging on a j-hook at a retail store, or standing alone through through another distribution outlet.
Inspired by the space cadet: http://people.xiph.org/~greg/xmodmap.txt

Capslock is left control; left control is greek (gets the two sets of alternative characters listed in the file). task button is compose.
2013 Salary Guide for Technologists [pdf]
Yeah, and my dog can read / write Swahili.

We know both statements are not true.
Three billion examples of why email is not dead
Performing rapper breaks stuff at Microsoft store; taken offline
> The above I can understand. MSFT claims ownership of any modifications you make to its software. Be aware.

MSFT claims a non-exclusive right to use your modifications.
Yeah, it's the 1366x768, same as the Air. I saw better options from a few different vendors but it always came at the price of low end components elsewhere.
$330 includes two Kinects. Two Leaps would cost $140.
Why did you decide to run your own presale rather than go through Kickstarter?
If Facebook should start WAY cheaper. Their primary objective should be to enroll credit cards regardless of the revenue generated. From there, they can raise the price on whatever actions they want to sell.
Commodity programmers have externally limited individual leverage (aforementioned 'teams building pyramids' strategy [1]) and systematically limited measurement (because their measurable output is blended with that of the supporting organization). On top of all that, any commoditized worker is going to have extremely limited leverage in salary negotiations due to the ease of replacing them.

pg's "How to Make Wealth" [2] does a great job of explaining the interplay between leverage, measurement, and wealth:

To get rich you need to get yourself in a situation with two things, measurement and leverage. You need to be in a position where your performance can be measured, or there is no way to get paid more by doing more. And you have to have leverage, in the sense that the decisions you make have a big effect.

Measurement alone is not enough. An example of a job with measurement but not leverage is doing piecework in a sweatshop. Your performance is measured and you get paid accordingly, but you have no scope for decisions. The only decision you get to make is how fast you work, and that can probably only increase your earnings by a factor of two or three.

An example of a job with both measurement and leverage would be lead actor in a movie. Your performance can be measured in the gross of the movie. And you have leverage in the sense that your performance can make or break it.

[1] http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/front/node1.html

[2] http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html
Still, someone will end up having to pay for a month in the ICU.

Health insurance is a way to share the risks so that nobody has to die just because they can't afford treatment. The odds I'll need expensive medical care increase every year.
I do expect to see more of it, although I prefer to see it done the way Microsoft does (I've linked it elsewhere in the thread). What rubbed me the wrong way about this one wasn't the policy, but how they make opting out as difficult as possible.
Since you asked, I can point you to a website I run that answers that exact question: http://howtobuyawebsite.org

I wrote an ebook on that very topic to help answer those particular fears and concerns for first-time or new buyers.
Dear Netflix: You're doing it wrong
Exactly, you are receiving a valuable service which is best in class for what it does. If you are using it at commercial levels then paying for it makes sense. If your business has enough traffic to fall into the paid tier and you can't afford $5 per 10K requests then something is probably wrong with your business model.
The actual transcript (which you can find on Groklaw) shows that there was no "10 year" limit, he completely made that up.
DayScore: simple tool to graph your productivity
At least it doesn't feature Real People Personalities, although I am pretty sure Sirius Cybernetics has a patent on that. ;)
Thats an awesome metaphor! Going to use this one, thanks.
It's also what people said about the hundreds of services that failed in 2007.
Maybe it's as simple as that particular co-founder won't come to the meeting for raising capital?
It's indeed similar, but we think there are three important differences.

Because our cameras are top mounted, our system is more comfortable / ergonomic. You don't have to lift your hands very high to interact, and your arms are always supported comfortably by the desk. We can enable convenient interactions right above the keyboard or even turn the desk itself into a touchscreen. Basically, our system is designed to be comfortable enough to use all day.

The second difference is more speculative, because it's hard to tell exactly what the Leap can or cannot do based off their video. Our system captures the entire hand rather than just the finger tips. This lets you use more natural gestures. For example, you can spin a virtual object by rotating your hand as if you were holding it (like in the sword-waving example in our video).

Finally, we're starting with commodity hardware you can get at immediately. It may look a little clunky right now, but we're experimenting with different cameras and different frames right now. Further down the road, it'll be a monitor / laptop clip-on or even built-in. Today, we're just releasing an SDK to let developers get started.

Thanks for the feedback! All of us at 3Gear spend more time than we should reading HN.
"Plonk"
Doesn't jailbreaking void your warranty?